Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sings two verses of "Home, Sweet Home" which run as follows...
...despite of the absence of years, How sweet the remembrance of home still appears...
...week prior, a subcommittee of the Finance Committee had held sugar hearings to which flocked white men and brown men, businessmen and lawyermen, bearing bulging brief cases and in anything but a sweet humor. William Marion Jardine, Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture, now a lobbyist for the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, opened the argument: "The trouble about Sugar is there is too damned much of it being produced. . . . Give us a duty that will bring six-cent sugar . . . and we'll show you how to produce more sugar...
...54th annual senior track meet of the National A. A. U. There, waiting to beat him, were Eddie Tolan, little bespectacled Negro from the University of Michigan and Western Conference champion; Frank Wykoff, defending A. A. U. champion; Claude Bracey, 1928 N. C. A. A. champion; Russell Sweet, Pacific A. A. U. champion; Cy Leland, Southern Collegiate champion. But George Simpson never ran. Two days before the race which somebody christened "the century of the century," practicing, he sprinted 50 yards, fell on his face. He had pulled a tendon. On the sidelines he stood two days later and watched...
...Frank Wykoff, whom Charlie ("World's Fastest Human") Paddock picked as winner, was first out of his holes. He led at 20, 30, 40 yards. Bracey drew alongside him. They were even at 50 yards. Bracey went ahead, far ahead, led at 60, 70, 80. Russell Sweet drew even at 90, was a foot ahead at 95. Then out of nowhere appeared what looked like a little black ball. It was Eddie Tolan, 5 ft. 4½ in. high, running so low his knees seemed to graze the ground, who hurled himself through the tape, won the windy race...